Auto Tab Discard Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• OSX reloads tabs when switching Spaces with Auto Tab Discard

  You might want to ask on developer of the addon: https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html. Source: over 1 year ago

• Browser Tab Hoarding: How do you organize/archive your research? Trying to reach Tab Zero.

  Not to be an enabler or anything, but have you tried Auto Tab Discard? Only active tabs will be loaded, so you can have thousands upon thousands of tabs without any impact on memory usage or performance. Source: over 1 year ago

• Whist, a new cloud-hybrid browser

  I use Auto Tab Discard [0], which offloads tabs after a period of time. They still show as normal tabs (with a "ZZZ" icon to indicate it's been discarded), and the website reloads when I switch to them. When I open the browser after closing it, the session is restored with all but the current tab offloaded so it opens quickly and using very little resources. My current session has tens of tabs, only a handful of... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Is there any addon that suspends/ hibernates tabs and restores them back when required like in Chromium based browsers there's "the great suspender" or "tiny suspender" and keeps a copy of tabs suspended as backup file on device?

  I'm using Auto Tab Discard for very fine control but it is not needed most of the time. FF does this automatically now via Tab Unloading. Source: over 2 years ago

• Inconsistent battery life?

  If something like Google Chrome is using a lot of power, can I determine which sites are using the most resources in its Task Manager (Shift+Esc)? Can I use something like Auto Tab Discard to minimize resource usage in tabs I'm not using? Source: over 2 years ago

• Opening hundreds of tabs in client browser by using server's RAM

  I think this extension does something similar: https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Microsoft Edge 89 Brings Vertical Tabs and New History View

  Both chrome and firefox have built in features to do the same thing that sleeping tabs does already. Just not many people know about it. Easiest way to use it is get an extension for tab discarding which is what they call it. This one have both a chrome and firefox version: https://add0n.com/tab-discard.html. Source: about 3 years ago